Research @virginia_tech: News credibility, media effects, partisan and political news. Teaching @comm_vt: Sports data journalism; social media analytics
Blacksburg, Virginia
Joined November 2008
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Pub day🚨 in @JITP_APSA from @tandfonline (who helped me quickly resolve an issue): I tested how audiences behave when asked to crowdsource news credibility (1) when they have the choice to participate and (2) when the menus they rate are partisan. tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3D8…
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🎓✨ Jan Lauren Boyles, #AUSOC's first-ever PhD grad, heads to @UniofOxford as a visiting fellow! At Iowa State's @GreenleeSchool, she's not just a tenured prof but also an associate director. Next stop: exploring data journalism at Oxford! 📊🤓 ow.ly/e4Th50QzMEH
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Announcing our spring conference, "Journalism Ethics & the AI Challenge," happening at UW–Madison and online on Friday, April 5. Register here: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2…
ALT Infographic showing pencil sketches of an AI network along with: "Journalism Ethics and the AI Challenge," April 5, 2024, UW–Madison campus
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Exciting news from @ISU_GSJC: This academic year, we have been developing a new degree in Sports Media and Communication. It's been an honor to lead the new major creation process. Hats off to @IowaStateBeth, @TBMo14 + @mcnabmedia for all the hard work. iowastatedaily.com/289030/ne…
I teach - and have taught for many semesters - a Social Media course in a building that is being torn down early next year. So I called an audible to finish the semester. Students are putting skills into practice to share #RandolphMemories. Follow along here and on Instagram.
Randolph Hall on the #VirginiaTech campus is hosting its final week of classes. The 70-year-old building will be razed to make way for Mitchell Hall, which should be completed late in 2027.
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Randolph Hall on the #VirginiaTech campus is hosting its final week of classes. The 70-year-old building will be razed to make way for Mitchell Hall, which should be completed late in 2027.
At @commvt we’ve got an amazing tt assistant professor opportunity to join the Journalism and Mass Comm Division with a specialization in sports media! careers.pageuppeople.com/968…
The Sports Media & Analytics program is a stand alone major with 300 students in a School of more than 1,000 undergraduates. We’re also the only program in the country with the analytics right in the name while we focus on the communication aspect. Background in numbers is a plus
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📣 The University of Virginia is thrilled to be launching a PhD in Media Studies in Fall 2024. We would appreciate your help in spreading the word to potential students now and in coming years!
@mediastudies
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Nominations for the 2024 #ShadidAward will open on Monday, November 13. This year's winner will receive $5,000 in prize money.
We look forward to receiving your nominations. How to nominate: ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/s…
ALT UW red infographic that shows a head shot of Anthony Shadid and the text, "The Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics; Ethics, Integrity, Impact; Nominations open Nov. 13"
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Don't want to vote in person? Voting absentee is for you! But act fast—today's the last day to request that an absentee ballot be mailed to you. Visit Vote.Virginia.gov to request your absentee ballot now! #VaElections2023 #VaisForVoters
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More often lately, I wonder what Anthony Shadid would be writing if he were with us. When he died, a former editor said: “He changed the way we saw Iraq, Egypt, Syria over the last, crucial decade. There is no one to replace him.” washingtonpost.com/local/obi… @farhip @marybsheridan
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“Objectivity is never possible,” said @kbculver, the director of @uw_sjmc. “Objectivity in a person does not exist; it’s a false construct. We’re not objective. We have to use objective methods to get to fair reporting.” nationalpress.org/topic/stat…
In which I predict that nothing at Fox News Chanel will change as Murdoch retires and hands over the reins to his son: apnews.com/article/rupert-mu…
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So happy to be joining @StanfordData as a Stanford Data Science Scholar.
I will spend the next two years in this community continuing to build my data capture and digital ecosystem experimentation software and participating in the Stanford DS community
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Do you have a Twitter project that was canceled or changed? @transparenttech is conducting a survey to understand how research is impacted by changes to Twitter. To participate, please fill out this survey: shorturl.at/rzL26 #research #socialmedia #twitter
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I'll be moderating this panel with @scheufele, @Kaiping_Chen and @kbculver next Monday! Come through!
When it comes to journalism, will AI help us hear the clear signals in all the online noise, or is it just a weapon for malevolent fraudsters?
Hear from @UWMadison experts @scheufele & @Kaiping_Chen at this free #CapTimesIdeaFest session.
🗓️ 7pm, Sept. 18
📍 Tripp Commons
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An upper level low interacted with a stalled boundary over the area and set new daily rainfall records at Blacksburg VA and Danville VA yesterday (Sept. 9, 2023).
In the past, folks loved to "unskew" the polls removing weights. Now, folks are acting like weights weren't used. An oversample is not a disqualifying problem if the pollster properly weighted.
"...the Republican oversample [is] weighted based on ... the overall population."
This poll has an oversample of republicans and republican-leaning independents. 898 of 1503 total people polled are or lean GOP.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Oversampling is a statistical technique for obtaining more precise information about particular subgroups (in this case, Republican primary voters). The final sample is reweighted so that poll results are not biased.
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